DoJ Settlement: Taxpayers will Pay Trump Adviser Michael Flynn $1.25 Million

Thursday, March 26, 2026

The Justice Department has reached a settlement with former Trump national security official and right-wing activist Michael Flynn after he sued the department, alleging that he was wrongly prosecuted during the first Trump administration.

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Trump's Justice Department has agreed to pay Michael Flynn $1.25 million in taxpayer money even though he pleaded guilty twice to making false statements to FBI agents about his interactions with Russian officials. @alanfeuer.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/03/25/u ... [image or embed]
-- Peter Baker (@peterbakernyt.bsky.social) Mar 25, 2026 at 9:05 PM

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...The retired three-star general sued the Justice Department in 2023 for $50 million in damages, alleging the government"improperly and politically" targeted him because of his association with President Trump's 2016 campaign and position in the White House. Flynn had been charged in November 2017 with making false statements to FBI investigators during an interview in January of that year.

Mr. Trump has repeatedly defended Flynn as an "innocent man" who was unfairly targeted by rogue FBI officials during their investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election, which the president has long derided as a "hoax" that was designed to undermine his presidency.

Mr. Trump pardoned Flynn in 2020 after he pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI.

He admitted guilt in December 2017 "and agreed to cooperate with the late special counsel Robert Mueller, who handled the Russia probe " and then again in December 2018 to making false statements to federal investigators about his contacts with former Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak. But Flynn asked to withdraw his guilty plea in January 2020 and accused the government of "bad faith, vindictiveness, and breach of the plea agreement." ...

#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-03-25 10:35 PM | Reply

So... Pres Trump's apparent grifting of our Treasury for himself and his freinds seems to be continuing?

#2 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-03-25 10:36 PM | Reply

Trump is a ----------- ---.

#3 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2026-03-25 10:49 PM | Reply

"No amount of money or formal resolution can erase the pain caused by a prosecution that should never have been brought," US Army PV1 Michael Flynt whined.

#4 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-03-25 10:56 PM | Reply

"I am owed $50,000,000 for admitting my guilt for things I did" is the stupidest ------- thing I have ever heard.

They are just trying to steal as much as possible now before the debt collapses the government.

#5 | Posted by Nixon at 2026-03-26 08:30 AM | Reply

Well, there goes Sutton's Law.
For MAGAts, the money clearly lies not in robbing banks but in looting the people's treasury.

#6 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2026-03-26 11:32 AM | Reply

" I am owed $50,000,000 for admitting my guilt for things I did" is the stupidest ------- thing I have ever heard."

It would be stupid if that's what he's doing. But it isn't what he's doing.

#7 | Posted by BellRinger at 2026-03-26 01:11 PM | Reply

" I am owed $50,000,000 for admitting my guilt for things I did" is the stupidest ------- thing I have ever heard."

It would be stupid if that's what he's doing. But it isn't what he's doing.

#7 | Posted by BellRinger

That would require him telling the truth.

MAGA are incapable of telling the truth and not raping underage girls.

#8 | Posted by Sycophant at 2026-03-26 10:00 PM | Reply

#8. It was a perjury trap, moron. He wasn't even being 8nvestigsted for a crime. He was set up and then subjected to lawfare.

#9 | Posted by BellRinger at 2026-03-26 10:25 PM | Reply

Such a good comment because of how badly you used lawfare.

#10 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-03-26 10:46 PM | Reply

"It was a perjury trap, moron."

In other words, Flynn could've kept out of all that trouble simply by telling the truth???

Oh, yeah, OBVIOUSLY it's the questioners' faults. Riiiiiiiiiight.

Are you sopping wet from all the water you're carrying?

#11 | Posted by Danforth at 2026-03-26 11:07 PM | Reply

"He wasn't even being 8nvestigsted"

The questioners gave him a second chance to tell the truth. He lied to them again.

Tell us again whose choice Flynn's lie was?

Ffs, did they yell at him, like they did at Zuck?

#12 | Posted by Danforth at 2026-03-26 11:36 PM | Reply

He was set up and then subjected to lawfare.

You have no idea what that word means, do you?

#13 | Posted by jpw at 2026-03-26 11:45 PM | Reply

#8. It was a perjury trap, moron. He wasn't even being 8nvestigsted for a crime. He was set up and then subjected to lawfare.

Then why did he plead guilty? Twice. If what you postulate is true then take it to trial. Truth. Justice. And the American way.

But he didn't. Instead, he sat down with his lawyers and examined line by line a long and detailed plea agreement. It explained in detail what he was charged with, the facts he admitted true that support his beyond a reasonable doubt guilt and that his plea and signature is without intimidation or coercion. Then he admitted in open court, twice, a few months apart that he voluntarily signed the agreement and that he is guilty as charged. Then the Buffoon gave him a pardon.

Then he sued for wrongful prosecution. Then the district and appellate court said, you gotta be kidding, you didn't fight it, plead guilty and the pardon is irrelevant. The Supreme court ducks the issues and rule proceduraly, standing.

So, in the face of a strong defense against the case the Buffoon caves. It cost us 1.25M. Why?

#14 | Posted by et_al at 2026-03-27 01:02 AM | Reply